Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Chen, Martha. "The Informal Economy in Comparative Perspective." A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. Ed. James G. Carrier. Edward Elgar Pub, 2012.
Behn, Robert. "PortStat: Or How the United States Coast Guard Could Use the PerformanceStat Leadership Strategy to Improve Port Security." Ports in a Storm: Public Management in a Turbulent World. Ed. Donahue, John D., and Mark H. Moore. Brookings Institution Press, 2012, 55-83.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick Patrick. The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the People’s Historian. The New Press, 2012.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Does US Need Another Imperial President Like Lyndon Johnson?" Boston Globe, May 31, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "Election Season Requires Listening, Not Just Talking." Boston Globe, May 31, 2012.
Chen, Martha. "Global Recession and the Informal Economy: Evidence from Latin America and Beyond." The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America. Ed. Michael Cohen. Routledge, May 2012.
Allison, Graham. "How Close Is Iran to Exploding Its First Nuclear Bomb?" Scientific American, May 30, 2012.
Milkman, Katherine L., John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Following through on Good Intentions: The Power of Planning Prompts." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-024, May 2012.
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-025, May 30, 2012.
Bahar, Dany, Ricardo Hausmann, and Cesar Hidalgo. "International Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series and CID Working Papers (RWP12-020 and 235), May 2012.
Bustos, Sebastián, Charles Gomez, Ricardo Hausmann, and César A. Hidalgo. "The Dynamics of Nestedness Predicts the Evolution of Industrial Ecosystems." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series and CID Working Papers (RWP12-021 and 236), May 2012.
Klimek, Peter, Ricardo Hausmann, and Stefan Thurner. "Empirical Confirmation of Creative Destruction from World Trade Data." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series and CID Working Papers (RWP12-022 and 238), May 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "The ‘Joplin Effect’." Boston Globe, May 24, 2012.
Burns, Nicholas. "Two Challenges That College Graduates Will Inherit." Boston Globe, May 24, 2012.
Besley, Timothy, Rohini Pande, and Vijayendra Rao. "Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India." World Bank Economic Review 26.2 (May 2012).
Banerjee, Abhijit, Rema Hanna, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Corruption." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-023, May 2012.
Burns, Nicholas. "Anchoring NATO with Leadership." Chicago Tribune, May 21, 2012.
Trautmann, Stefan T., Gijs van de Kuilen, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Social Class and (Un)ethical Behavior: Evidence from a Large Population Sample." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-019, May 2012.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "Israel’s Undersea Gas Bonanza May Spur Mideastern Strife." Bloomberg News, May 21, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "Europe's Other Challenge: Immigration." Boston Globe, May 21, 2012.
Bunn, Matthew, and Abbas Maleki. "How to Avoid a War With Iran." Foreign Policy. May 21, 2012.
Scherer, F.M. "Financial Mergers and Their Consequences." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-018, May 2012.
Hunt, Swanee. "More Women are Needed in Congress." Boston Globe, May 19, 2012.
Aldy, Joseph. "Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Climate Change." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-017, May 2012.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Mass. Health Care Debate Pits Cost vs. Quality — and Young vs. Old." Boston Globe, May 17, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "Urging Women to Be All That You Can’t Be." Boston Globe, May 17, 2012.
Moreno-Cruz, Juan B., and David W. Keith. "Climate Policy Under Uncertainty: A Case for Solar Geoengineering." Climatic Change (May 17, 2012).
Burns, Nicholas, and David Miliband. "NATO: When I'm Sixty-Four." New York Times, May 17, 2012.
Campante, Filipe R., and Quoc-Anh Do. "Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-016, May 2012.
Glaeser, Edward L. "The Economist Who Changed the Way We Think About Housing." Bloomberg News, May 15, 2012.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Judge the U.S. Candidates by Their Self-Mastery and Openness." Daily Star, May 15, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "A Crackdown Avoided." Boston Globe, May 14, 2012.
Burns, Nicholas. "Anchoring the Alliance." Atlantic Council of the United States, May 14, 2012.
Aldy, Joseph E., Matthew J. Kotchen, and Anthony A. Leiserowitz. "Willingness to Pay and Political Support for a U.S. National Clean Energy Standard." Nature Climate Change 2.5 (May 2012).
Nethercutt, George, and Richard Parker. "A National Call to Action on Citizenship Education." Seattle Times, May 10, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "A Plot Foiled, but a US Agency Rift Exposed." Boston Globe, May 10, 2012.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Hollande Effect." Boston Globe, May 10, 2012.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "China's Soft Power Deficit." Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "A Tragedy or Merely Tragic?" Boston Globe, May 7, 2012.
Allison, Graham. "How It Went Down." Time Magazine. May 7, 2012.
Burns, Nicholas. "Blame China, Not Obama or US, for the Plight of Activist Chen Guangcheng." Christian Science Monitor, May 3, 2012.
Glaeser, Edward L. "The Keys to Keeping Boston Free of Riots." Boston Globe, May 3, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "Al Qaeda Loses its Way." Boston Globe, May 3, 2012.
Hanna, Rema, Esther Duflo, and Michael Greenstone. "Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-015, May 2012.
Donahue, John D., and Mark H. Moore, eds. Ports in a Storm: Public Management in a Turbulent World. Brookings Institution Press, 2012.
Norris, Pippa. "The Persistence of Cultural Diversity Despite Cosmopolitanism." Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies. Ed. Gerard Delanty. Routledge, May 2012, 166-177.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "Toward a Higher Purpose: Captain Englebert Navigates the Choppy Waters of Network Governance." Ports in a Storm: Public Management in a Turbulent World. Ed. John D. Donahue and Mark H. Moore. Brookings Institution Press, 2012, 133-158.
Ricke, Katharine L., Daniel J. Rowlands, William J. Ingram, David W. Keithand, and M. Granger Morgan. "Effectiveness of Stratospheric Solar-Radiation Management as a Function of Climate Sensitivity." Nature 2.5 (May 2012): 92–96.
Glaeser, Edward L., Joshua D. Gottlieb, and Kristina Tobio. "Housing Booms and City Centers." American Economic Review 102.3 (May 2012): 127-133.
Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Jonathan S. Skinner. "Saving Money or Just Saving Lives? Improving the Productivity of US Health Care Spending." Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012): 12.1-12.24.